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MOLIERE. Oeuvres choisies de moliere. Paris. A la Librairie de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse, 1861. 8vo. x, 488pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 19 engraved plates. Contemporary prize binding, gilt-tooled calf, red calf lettering-piece, marbled edge. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked prize inscription to front blank fly-leaf, foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29767
DA COSTA, Jose Daniel Rodrigues. O espreitador do mundo novo. Obra critica, moral, e divertida. Lisboa [i.e. Lisbon]. Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1802. First edition. Quarto. In twelve parts. 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32pp. With a woodcut vignette to title, and a further 11 identical woodcut vignettes in the text. Contemporary black morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed, some surface loss. Marbled endpapers, small neat paper repair to verso of title (slight loss to imprint), very occasional chipping to margins. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20924
PORTAL, Antione. Observations sur la nature et sur le traitement du rachitisme, ou des courbures de la colonne vertebrale, et de celles des extremities superieures et inferieures. A Paris. Chez Merlin, 1797. First edition. 8vo. viii, 388pp. With half-title. Contemporary sheep, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbed, spine discoloured. Half-title browned, leaves lightly toned/spotted. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 17017
ALBERTI DI VILLANUOVA, Francesco . Nuovo dizionario portatile, italiano-francese, compendiato da quello d'alberti... Parigi [i.e. Paris]. Presso Bossange, Masson e Besson, Librai, 1797. [4], xxiii, [1], 495pp, [1]. With half-title.

[Bound with:] ALBERTI DI VILLANUOVA, Francesco. Nouveau dictionnaire de poche, francois-italien, abrege de celui d'alberti... A Paris. Chez Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1797. 11, [1], xxiii, [1], 432pp. With half-title.

12mo. Contemporary sheep, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Heavily worn. Hinges exposed, loss to half-title, loss to corners of b3 and I1 - touching text in both instances with ... More >
£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 16643
CARDUCCI, Giosue. Nuove poesie di giosue carducci (enotrio romano). In Bologna. Presso Nicola Zanichelli, 1875. Seconda edizione. 8vo. [2], xlii, 205pp, [1]. Portrait frontispiece (reproduced from a woodcut) of the author.Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Slight rubbing to extremities, corners, else a near fine copy. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper, which with the other preliminaries is slightly discoloured. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25395
[BIBLE - N.T., Latin]. Novum jesu christi testamentum a Sebastiano Castalione Latine redditum. In Usum Scholarum. Londini [i.e. London]. Ex Typographeio Benj. Motte, Prostant apud Benj. Tooke, J. Bowyer, & J. Bateman, 1722. Editio novissima. 12mo. 360pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Heavily rubbed. Without free-endpapers, manuscript shelf-marks and pen-trials to pastedowns and title, loss to lower corner of final leaf, scattered foxing. Armorial bookplate to FEP of the Marquess of Lothian, Newbattle Abbey. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25566
MOUNIER, M. [Jean Joseph]. Nouvelles observations sur les etats-generaux de france. Par M. Mounier, Secretaire des Etats de la Province de Dauphine. [s.l.]. [s.n.], 1789. First edition. 8vo. 282pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Rubbed to extremities, cracking to joints, dart-holes to foot of spine, without lettering-piece. Dugald Stewart's copy, with his characteristic signature to FEP, largely obscured by the armorial bookplate of (George) 'Cranstoun of Corehouse'. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 26077
LENORMAND, Seb[astien]. Nouveau manuel complet du relieur en tous genres contenant les art de l'Assembleur, du Satineur, du Brocheur, du Rogneur, du Cartonneur, du Marbreur sur tranches et du Doreur sur tranches et sur cuir. Paris. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 1890. 12mo. viii, 428pp. With four engraved folding plates. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine.Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33027
[ORLANDI, Enrico]. Notizie istoriche della miracolosa immagine di maria santma portata nella citta' di frascati da s. giuseppe calasanzio Ed ivi venerata nella Chiesa de' Padri delle scuole pie dedicate A. S. A. R. Eba il Sig. Cardinale enrico duca di york vescovo, e protettore di detta citta'. In Roma [i.e. Rome]. Presso Lino Contedini, 1825. Terza edizione [i.e. third edition]. 8vo. 48pp. Recent decorated paper boards, calf lettering-piece to upper board. Extremities lightly rubbed and sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21183
[FRENCH COLONIES]. Notices statistiques sur les colonies françaises. Imprimées par ordre de m. le vice-amiral de rosamel, ministre secrétaire d'état de la marine et des colonies. Paris. Imprimerie Royale, 1837-40 8vo. Four separately issued parts. In four volumes. [4], iii, [1], 248; [6], 271, [1]; [4], ii, 320; [4], 216pp. Uncut and largely unopened in modern navy cloth, contrasting black calf lettering-pieces. Remnants of original publisher's printed wrappers laid down and bound in. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31181
WIST, Ki. ADIE. Nos quatre 9 libres d'Amour. Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels]. Editions Henriquez, 1964. First edition. 8vo. 1 of 45 copies printed. [22]pp. Leaves loosely inserted into original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Lightly damp-stained. Presentation copy, inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'Un joyeux Noel 1969 / A Monsieur & Madame / Charles - / Tres cordialements / Ki Wist / Adie'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24168
SANDER, Nicholas. Nicolai sanderi angli doct. theol. De origine ac progressv Schismatis Anglicani, Libri Tres: quibus historia continetur maxime ecclesiastica, Annorum circiter 60. lectu dignissima; Aucti prius per edovardum rishtonum... Coloniae Agrippinae [i.e. Cologne]. Sumptibus Petri Henningi, 1610. 8vo. [16], 456, [24], 182pp, [2]. Contemporary vellum, lacking ties, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities marked and discoloured, a trifle rubbed. Upper board and initial gathering detached from text-block, booklabels of Gulielmi O'Brien and Milltown Park Library to FEP, ink initial to head of title-page, loss to lower corner of leaf T1, very occasional marginal chipping, foxed. More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 15490